Here’s the announcement via MarketWatch. Warner Bros. says they’re rescheduling “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” because summer releases are better for family-oriented “tentpole” projects, and because the Writers’ Guild strike…

Michael Moore begs Barack Obama to denounce him.   Tags: Michael+Moore, Barack+Obama, denunciation

(Hmm, sounds like a Doctor Who title. You can just hear the denouement. “All right, Masters of the Hydrox, now listen to me! In accordance with Section Eighteen, paragraph twelve of the Shadow…

Tags: LOL, bear, icanhascheezburger, bear+macro, Yogi+Bear, Mr.+Ranger

For those of you who’re interested: Peter and I both have stories out in DAW Books’ new fantasy anthology Enchantment Place. (There’s a lot of good company in the anthology,…

Yesterday, [his attorney] said his client asked for a copy of [Josepha Sherman’s and Susan Shwartz’s] Star Trek novel “Vulcan’s Forge.” Tags: Star+Trek, Vulcan’s+Forge, Clark+Rockefeller, Christian+Gerhartsreiter

Which would be (originally) Independent Pizza Co. in Drumcondra, but (even more so) its younger sister-facility, Gotham Café in South Anne Street. The excellent Adam Kuban of Slice, the pizza…

No, really. Tags: anime, contact+lenses

The Star Trek MMORPG is finally moving forward. Yay! Tags: Star+Trek, MMORPG

(EDIT: Scroll down to the bottom of the posting for video of the August 11 press conference with Rockefeller / Gerhartsreiter’s attorney.) I’ve continued to follow the “Clark Rockefeller” / Christian…

A one-Euro coin with Homer Simpson’s face on it has turned up in Spain. No, really. (more here and here)   By rights, though, it should have turned up in Greece.…

Some days ago the thought occurred to me that the original story got very viral very quickly. Well, maybe there was a reason for that. Gawker puts forward their theory…

(Non-technically inclined people, look away now. Or skip down to the bottom of this where it gets less technical.) I have a lot more screenplay stuff to do today, but…

One more thing I hadn’t thought I needed to be worried about. (with a tip of the hat to our cousins at Bad Astronomy Blog) Tags: hadron, abuse, subatomic, particle,…

When those images of the big Berlin gathering at which Obama spoke started turning up on the Net, I said to myself, “Hmm, this is going to provoke certain kinds of…

Like a lot of other people, I’ve been following the “Clark Rockefeller” kidnapping case and its sequelae, bemused by the net of false identities that the guy seems to have…

It was only a matter of time before someone did this… (with a tip of the toque to Ed at Tomato)

This is cool! And apparently it’s still growing (to judge by the “Add An Event” button).   Tags: Internet, history, meme, online

Yes, you too can use that wonderful built-in motion sensor to pour virtual beer. ….Ooooooookay. Meanwhile, I truly feel there might be better things to run on an iPhone or iPod…

…And it’s fascinating. Purported descendants of the Knights Templars are suing Pope Benedict for recognition of the seizure of a hundred billion Euros’ worth of their ancestors’ assets and property…

Watching “Justice League Unlimited” as Gaeilge / in Irish. (Unfortunately I don’t seem able to find any online links to demonstrate how it looks / sounds. But TG4, the national…

In today’s xkcd: whoops. (See, this is what happens when you get careless about translation issues.) Tags: religion, trinity, accident, ghosts, buster

Tink. Tags: kitten, video, adorable, too+cute+to+live, kitty, cat, YouTube, video, viral

ZoomBak A-GPS Locator for Dogs (And it seems to me that if you could use it for dogs, you could use it for cats as well — assuming that the…